Using Repeat Patterns in Adobe Photoshop. Home > Tutorials > Using Repeat Patterns in Adobe Photoshop This tutorial is going to show you how easy it is to fill custom shapes with repeating patterns in Adobe Photoshop. I’m using CS3 for this tutorial but it should work in any recent version. You can have some real creative fun with Photoshop and repeat patterns. As with most things, there’s lots of different ways to use patterns in your own designs. For this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to take a repeat pattern, add it to the Photoshop pattern library and then use it to fill selections. For this tutorial I’m using one of the free patterns but you can use any pattern as long as it repeats on all sides.In Photoshop, Click the File menu and choose Open.Select the pattern file you want to use and open it.
Click the Edit menu and choose Define PatternGive your pattern a name and click okYou’ve now defined a pattern that you can open and use in any future design that you create. Click the Ok button to fill your pattern. Creating Reusable & Versatile Background Patterns. I haven't written any Photoshop tutorials for a while. Today I'm going to share a simple tutorial on how to create reusable background patterns with Photoshop and CSS. I learned this trick from designing WordPress themes. The trick is to create one reusable transparent PNG background and use CSS background-color property to create various color skins. It is particularly useful for creating customizable and dynamic templates (see demos). What is so cool about this? With transparent pattern image, users can easily customize the background color by altering the hex color. Photoshop Trick: Extracting Pattern This Photoshop trick works on most pattern images. Step 1 First you have to turn the image layer to black & white (go to Image > Adjustments > Destaturate).
Step 2 Now you should have a black & white pattern. Step 3 Go back to the Layers palette. Shortcut tip for loading the Channel selection: hold down the Cmd key and click on the Channel layer thumbnail. Opacity Final (see demos) Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls. Hey it’s a Monday morning freebie! This one took a little extra time to make, so I really hope you enjoy it. It is (mostly) seamless, so you can drop it into your swatches panel and fill any shape with it. I say mostly because it went through a series of transformations – one of which was an export to photoshop (for some wacom-esque highlighting) followed by a hi-res auto trace in Illustrator. So, some edges are slightly off, but the overall seamless effect is there.
Go ahead and download it, but stick around for some behind the scene paparazzi shots of how it was made. I’ll admit it – I had never made a seamless pattern before. I knew I wanted it to be swirly, so I pen-tooled some reference photos for ingredients as I brainstormed just how this was going to work. By the time these ingredients were ready I had a plan for a workable but really laborious process to make a seamless pattern. As you can see from the last screenshot, the pattern was still quite a mess at this stage. Photoshop Tutorial - Create a Seamless Texture from a Photo.
This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a seamless texture from almost any photo. The first thing we're going to do is apply Photoshop's Offset Filter. This filter is located on the menu Filter->Other->Offset. Offset Dialog This is the dialog that is displayed when you select the Offset filter. The value in Horizontal should be half the width of your original image and the value in Vertical should be half the height of your original image.
My source image is 2048x2048 in size, so I entered +1024 for Horizontal and +1024 for Vertical. Resulting Image Healing Brush IconHealing Brush Options As you probably noticed, the image has some pretty noticeable seams. The Healing Brush works by taking a selection from one part of the image and blending it into another. Depending on your source image, your brush settings might be different.
Preview The Result Now that we have a pattern defined, we need to use the "Fill" tool to tile it for us. Original Tilied Seamless Tiled. Creating a Seamless Pattern « Bortonia: All Things Vector. In this tutorial, the lovely Diane Labombarbe (aka ‘diane555’ on iStockphoto.com) has kindly volunteered to show you how she makes her beautiful seamless vector patterns. You can check out her work at www.istockphoto.com/diane555. Getting Started Start by drawing a square.
Ours is 5 inches in size. Fill it with a color you like. Make a new layer in between your squares. Unlock your outlined square, select it and all your pattern elements (the flowers and birds), and group them (Command-G on Mac, or Control-G on PC). Creating the Pattern Now we’ll start making some copies of this to see how our pattern works. Select the copied pattern and hit ‘Return’ while holding down the ‘Shift’ key.
Repeat this process 3 more times, so that your pattern tile surrounds your original colored square on all four sides. Making Adjustments To make changes, we’ll go back to our central shapes layer. Note how in the example above, some of the shapes as well as the background color look washed out? Like this: Complex Repeating Patterns Part II. Step 1 If you didn’t download the source file for Part I and want to follow along simply download .pat file here. Install the pattern by choosing Edit>Preset Manager from the main menu, choose Patterns from the drop-down-menu and press the Load button on the right hand side of the dialog.
Navigate to wherever you saved the downloaded .pat file, select it and press OK to load the pattern into Photoshop. Step 2 Now that the pattern is loaded lets go ahead and open a new document in Photoshop (mine is 540x400px at 72ppi). Although the dimensions of your file don’t matter, if you’re using a higher resolution you’ll need to make slight adjustments to the layer styles we apply along the way. By default the background layer of a new Photoshop document is locked. Step 3 The first item of business is somehow get our pattern onto the stage where we can work with it. Control-Click (PC: Right-Click) on the Background layer in the Layers palette and choose Blending Options from the menu. Step 4 Step 5. Bookmarking : Best of Video Tutorials Creating Seamless patterns in Adobe illustrator-1 | Artistic Inspirations AiVault graphic design blog. Working With Pattern Swatches in Illustrator.
Create a Seamless, Textured, Spade Pattern Using Illustrator and Photoshop. Seamless patterns can be a lot of fun to play with. When used properly, a nice seamless pattern can make the difference between a good design and a great one. There are a lot of tutorials out there describing how to create seamless patterns in Illustrator and Photoshop but today we are going to demonstrate how to use both programs to create a spade pattern in Illustrator, and then add some texture with Photoshop. Final Image Below is what our final pattern will look like. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.Difficulty: Beginner.Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes. Step 1: The Spade You could easily draw a spade of your own for this step I prefer not to re-invent the wheel.
Step 2: Create Our Base Tile Now that we have our spade, it’s now time to create a base tile. Step 3: Create Corner Elements Before we proceed to the next step, make sure that you Turn On Your Smart Guides and that you Enable Snap to Point. Step 4: Crop the Tile Step 5: Manually Create a Tile.